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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Google: Gemini Flash Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google: Gemini Flash Latest
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Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score56.1-
Input Price$0.75/M$0.75/M
Output Price$3.75/M$3.75/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,53665,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio
Benchmark Scores
ai_index56.1-

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.6 FlashGoogle: Gemini Flash Latest
SQL Generation 140 133
Code Review 142 132
Code Completion 132 131
Code Refactoring 145 136
Bug Fixing 146 136
Unit Test Generation 130 124
Code Documentation 136 131
Regex Writing 124 119
CI/CD Pipelines 126 120
Frontend Component Design 128 122
Data Analysis 132 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 135 128
OCR / Document Parsing 133 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 131
Long-Document Summarization 146 137
Short-Form Summarization 125 123
Blog Post Writing 128 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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